... doesn't seem to work.
Several of Debian's dpkg utilities have code like the following:
#! /usr/bin/perl
open(Y,"> file.new") ||
die("open new substvars file \`file.new' failed");
chown(0, 0, "file.new") ||
die("chown of \`file.new' failed");
close(Y)
which when executed by root in a coda file system dies as follows:
chown of `file.new' failed at ./oops.pl line 4.
unless file.new previously existed.
I seem to recall this is expected behavior (but can't find the
citation). If so, is this a restriction of Coda, a bug in Coda, or a
bug in the Perl code?
Steve
